BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS have been commissioned to design the Environmental Awareness Center in Husavik, Iceland, under the patronage of the Swedish Royal House and the Icelandic Government.
Ecologically the most heavily damaged country in Europe, Iceland could serve as a model for the global ecological problems.
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We integrate the dynamics and energy of a young spirit with the reliability and knowledge of 25 plus years of experience. Determination, passion and integrity are the driving forces. Based in Brussels, we practice architecture and urban design with a globalized cultural perspective. The refusal to choose between body and soul, ratio and poetry, matter and spirit, allows instead a balance to be found between these polarities. Beginning with the importance of architectural quality, we focus not on the architecture itself, but on the added value it can create for its context and for the society.
Our attitude in design is supported by an international focus, by a large scale of different disciplines and by a strong ecological awareness. Our team consists of people of different nationalities and with complementary skills; our collaborators do not only have a background in architecture and urban design, but also in social sciences, art, etc. When necessary for specific projects we team up with additional partners who bring in extra expertise.
Next to that our office is functioning as a platform for interaction with partners in the field of photography, fashion, contemporary art and sustainability in a broad perspective.
Associates
arch. Oana Bogdan, °1977, Sighisoara, Romania
prof. ir. arch. Leo Van Broeck, °1958, Antwerpen, Belgium
Employees
Valerie Talamini, °1971, Ninove, Belgium
Freelancers
eng.arch. Miguel Steel Lebre, °1978, Santarém, Portugal
arch. Aron Sümeghy, °1981, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
arch. Charlotte Truwant, °1980, Anneçy, France
arch. Thomas Rigby, °1984, Fontainebleau, France
eng.arch. Maxime Czvek, °1985, Gent, Belgium
arch. Miguel Valério, °1978, Porto, Portugal
eng.arch. Matthias Van Rossen, °1977 Ninove, Belgium
Former collaborators
Tine Holvoet, °1982, Oostende, Belgium
arch. ass. Steven Stessens, °1986, Lommel, Belgium
arch. ir. Philip Stessens, °1983, Lommel, Belgium
eng.arch. Karel Burssens, °1983, Leuven, Belgium
arch. Sofie Liesenborghs, °1985 Leuven, Belgium
arch. Olivier Herman, °1975, Brussels, Belgium
arch. Linde Stellamans, °1982, Kortrijk, Belgium
arch. Zebulon A. Nelessen, °1975, New Brunswick, USA
student arch. Anett Farkas, °1987, Balatonfüred, Hungary
student arch. Joanna Plak, °1985, Katowice, Poland
student arch. Léonore Grec, °1985, Paris, France
BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS bvba
Quai au Foin 55 1000 Brussel [google map]
T +32 2 609 00 65
F +32 2 609 00 89
vat 0893 134 131
rsz 1824932-77
ing 363-0241153-51
Subway: IJzer or Sint Katelijne
Railway station: Brussel Noord and Brussel Centraal
Villo bicycle stop: Marguerite Durassquare
In the neighborhood: KVS Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Tour & TaxisThéâtre National, Argos center for art and media, Kaaitheater, Mediaruimte LA[bau], Modo Bruxellae, Bronks Youth Theatre, Brasserie Bar Bik, Resto Chez Henri, Lunchbar Pic Nik, Le White Room bed & breakfast, Royal Brasserie Brussels
BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS bvba Quai au Foin 55 1000 Brussel (google map) T +32 2 609 00 65 F +32 2 609 00 89 office@bvbarchitects.com www.bvbarchitects.com vat 0893 134 131 rsz 1824932-77 ing 363-0241153-51 Subway: IJzer or Sint Katelijne Railway station: Brussel Noord and Brussel Centraal Villo bicycle stop: Marguerite Durassquare In the neighborhood: KVS Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Tour & Taxis, Théâtre National, Argos center for art and media, Kaaitheater, Mediaruimte LA[bau], Modo Bruxellae, Bronks Youth Theatre, Brasserie Bar Bik, Resto Chez Henri, Lunchbar Pic Nik, Le White Room bed & breakfast, Royal Brasserie Brussels
We are looking for the following profile:
PROJECT MANAGER
A freelance [engineer] architect with minimum 10 years of professional experience, strong design ability and technical proficiency, stress resistant, efficient and born organizer. We need you to help us to carry a project from A to Z.
Knowledge of Dutch is required. Please send your application in Dutch.
Candidates are asked to forward an application letter together with a CV and a portfolio to Valérie Talamini at:
office@bvbarchitects.com
or
BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
Quai au Foin 55
1000 Brussels
Belgium
site Quai au Foin 55 1000 Brussels
client BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
photography BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
surface 450 m²
status in progress
tags interior, offices
code 0001BVB
team Karel Burssens, Maxime Czvek, Anett Farkas, Léonore Grec, Olivier Herman, Tine Holvoet, Sofie Liesenborghs, Zebulon Nelessen, Joanna Plak, Thomas Rigby, Miguel Steel Lebre, Linde Stellamans, Philip Stessens, Steven Stessens, Aron Sümeghy, Valérie Talamini, Charlotte Truwant, Miguel Valério, Matthias Van Rossen
The play with polarities is central in the development of the corporate identity of our office. A world of contrasts - old & new, hard & soft, dark & light, slow & fast - is supporting us and our platform for cultural interaction with various partners. The location, the centre of Brussels, near the KVS, Argos, Kaaitheater, Théâtre National and other cultural institutions, has been chosen in accordance to the aims of our office.
The space is organized as a city neighbourhood, with a main street crossing a sequence of functions: waiting room, working space, concert hall, meeting rooms, café, archive, kitchen, server room, pool table, brainstorming room, tennis table, lounge, model room etc.
site G. Moreau street 112-116, 1070 Anderlecht
client De Anderlechtse Haard nv
structural eng Ney & Partners nv
technical eng SB Heedfeld nv
surface 1 725 m²
budget 1 725 000 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2009 | realisation 2011
status competition 1st prize, design phase
tags housing, sustainable
team Thomas Rigby, Bogdan Saileanu, Miguel Steel Lebre, Matthias Van Rossen
The morphology of the project is generated by a new definition of "fitting in the context" on different scale levels. The classical typology of the 19th century urban house (with a carriage-driveway to the stables in the courtyard) is applied on the scale of a housing complex.
By connecting the depths and heights of the two neighbouring houses, the apartment block in front emerges as a faceted polyhedron. An introverted volume in the back under an extrusion of the adjacent shed roofs organises three single family houses accessible through a green courtyard.
Façades elaborated in COR-TEN steel fit in the red-brown colour range of the brick houses in the neighbourhood. Well protected privacy is combined with a generous access of daylight and a high spatial quality; in this way social housing becomes a full grown part of the city fabric without any kind of stigmatizing or 'visible poverty'. The project chooses deliberately to interact intensely with its context and uses present city qualities to create a material support for social integration and cohesion.
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site city of Uppsala
client Uppsala Kommun - Kulturkontoret
partner H2 Projekt AB
timing 2009
status feasibility study in progress
tags culture, studies
code 0024UPP
team Philip Stessens
The historical importance of Uppsala, the worldwide fame of its university, its rich cultural background, the vicinity of Stockholm and the national airport... all these things give the city a huge potential.
Once in the scientific and cultural vanguard of Sweden, Uppsala clearly wants to regain this status and applies for the selection of European Capital of Culture in 2014.
To reach a more coherent policy on art and culture and express its artistic level of ambition Uppsala should create new facilities for contemporary art and culture. The mission of this feasibility study is to identify what Uppsala really needs in order to achieve these targets.
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site city of Ghent
client Afdeling Ruimtelijke Planning Gent
architect BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
partners BUUR cvba and dept. ASRO K.U.Leuven
surface 156 km²
timing 2009
status study completed
tags public, studies, urban
code 0020HOO
Based on a general analysis of high rise and an analysis of the local context, we have developed:
site Za’abeel Park Dubai
client Dubai Municipality - ThyssenKrupp Elevator
structural eng Ney + Partners nv
surface 1 200 m²
timing competition design 2009
tags culture, not built, public, urban
code 0017TES
team Naveen Kulshreshta, Eliane Leroux, Sofie Liesenborghs, Charlotte Truwant
Within a tensegrity structure the minimal elements of the program are linked with various modes of vertical transport: elevators, escalators, cable cars, etc.
A 3-dimensional network of public functions becomes an emblematic icon for Dubai.
site Grote Markt 34 8900 Ieper
client Stad Ieper
structural eng Ney + Partners nv
technical eng SB Heedfeld nv
heritage consultant Robin Engels
surface 4 840 m²
timing competition design 2008
status 2nd place Open Oproep 1512
tags culture, heritage, not built, offices, public
code 0010IFF
team Zebulon Nelessen, Joanna Plak, Philip Stessens, Léonore Grec
For the historical Cloth Hall we propose a flexible system of logical loops that meet in a central connector. At the same time the relation and interaction between the interior of the building and the surrounding public spaces is intensified through simple interventions.
site Stokerijstraat 2110 Wijnegem
client Vervoordt r.e.
structural eng Studieburo Mouton bvba
technical eng Botec nv
landscape architecture Michel Desvigne sarl
surface 20 958 m² zones A2, OP and C
timing design 2008 | realisation 2012
status design phase
tags commercial, culture, heritage, housing
code 0003KAN
team Karel Burssens, Maxime Czvek, Zebulon Nelessen, Thomas Rigby, Miguel Steel Lebre, Aron Sümeghy, Charlotte Truwant, Miguel Valério, Matthias Van Rossen
This project is a conversion of an industrial site into a mixed use project.
We are designing exhibition spaces and a restaurant in the existing industrial buildings along the canal, and new dwellings and ateliers organized in simple volumes on top of an underground parking. Both the outside spaces and the dwellings are designed as a sequence of rooms with a view.
click here to see the project website of Vervoordt r.e.
site Boulevard Général Jacques VUB campus Brussels
client Public-private partnership Free University of Brussels and Intersportif nv
architect BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
structural eng Ney + Partners nv
technical eng SB Heedfeld nv
surface 8000 m²
budget estimated 10 000 000 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2006 | realisation 2011
status design phase
tags commercial, education, offices, public
code 0002VUB
team Karel Burssens, Olivier Herman, Philip Stessens, Steven Stessens, Aron Sümeghy, Matthias Van Rossen
Located on the sports campus of the Free University of Brussels, this building has a double function: academic residence for students, guest professors and top sportsmen and **** star design hotel for tourists and businessmen.
Inspired by the world of sports, the concept of the room is based on the celebration of the body: the traditional room with a separate bathroom is transformed into one cocoon space designed for protection, rest and wellness.
site C-mine 3600 Genk client Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg vzw Diepenbeek structural & technical eng Grontmij Zaventem nv photography Thomas Mayer surface 7 000 m² budget 6 700 000 € ex. vat and fee timing design 2004 | realisation 2007-2009 status built tags built, education, heritage, public code V0421KHL team Miguel Steel Lebre, Aron Sümeghy The Media & Design Academy, institution of higher education in audiovisual arts, plastic arts and product design, is part of C-Mine, a new educational and cultural cluster on a former coal mining site. The project has been designed taking in account the requirements of the programme and the very specific qualities of its context: a very limited budget, a new teaching concept, the obligation to build on an existing underground parking garage and the overwhelming presence of the surrounding mining landscape and monuments. The result is a building which stimulates creativity and innovation. The study-landscape, around which all educational functions are organized, provides an interactive space for meeting, experiment, social contact and the exchange of ideas between all students and teachers - a genuine "teaching and learning factory".
site Eendenpoel 1 3600 Genk
client Jacobs-Van Broel nv Zonhoven
structural & technical eng AB associates bvba
photography Ivan Put
surface 7 650 m²
budget 6 242 040 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2004-2007
status built
tags built, housing
code V0418TEN
This project minimizes the impact of parking and traffic in the open space, so that an atmosphere of living in the woods coul be created.
The position of the blocks is defined in function of noise, sun, views and privacy, in order to reach an optimum contact between housing and nature.
site Dumontlaan 3600 Genk
client SHM Nieuw Dak Genk
structural & technical eng Grontmij nv
surface 3 085 m²
budget 3 781 307 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2004-2007
tags commercial, housing, sustainable
code V0419DUM
The project proposes an alternative to the existing urban detailed plan: a smaller footprint and, due to the high level of the ground water, an elevated street with housing on top of an open parking.
site Burgstraat 20 3321 Outgaarden
client City of Hoegaarden
structural & technical eng BSTK bvba
photography VBMarchitecten
surface 240 m²
budget 374 985 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2003 | realisation 2005-2007
status built
tags built, education, public
code V0325OUT
OUTGAARDEN
How to make an extra classroom on a school site that is already full? Make a cut in the playground, tilt it and shift the new class under the slope. The grass roof on top of the classroom forms a sloped green extension of the playground while a facade of garage doors on the other side opens the class towards the tiled part of the playground.
site Diestesteenweg 3010 Leuven
client Matexi Projects nv
structural & technical eng BSTK bvba
photography Olmo Peeters
surface 32 138 m²
budget 25 000 000 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2003-2004 | realisation 2006-2012
status phase1 built; request for building permit phase 2 submitted
tags commercial, heritage, housing, sustainable, urban
code V0319CWK & 0040CWK
team Aron Sümeghy, Miguel Steel Lebre, Philip Stessens, Steven Stessens
The design has the ambition to convert the site of the former railway workshops into a new community center for Kessel-lo without tabula rasa of the history of the place.
Composed mainly of individual row houses, the new urban blocks have a scale that refers to the historical halls.
The contact of the dwellers with the street is enhanced by inverting the traditional Belgian urban block: the articulated street facades of this project refer to the typical fragmented backsides of Belgian houses, where 'life happens in the backyard'.
site Brouwersstraat 7 3000 Leuven
client Ertzberg nv Leuven
structural & technical eng Arcade nv
photography Toon Grobet
surface 2 990 m²
budget 3 510 000 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2003 | realisation 2009
status in construction
tags heritage, housing, under construction, urban
code V0316BRO
team Karel Burssens, Miguel Steel Lebre, Linde Stellamans
Situated inside an urban block close to the city center of Leuven, the site of the former brewery is virtually divided into three zones: the former stables transformed into row houses, the malt house transformed into lofts and new patio villas near the river Dijle.
We have designed special typologies for the row houses (in order to capture natural light) and for the villas (in order to solve the privacy conflicts with the surrounding existing houses). The design of the lofts required a re-division of the building height, which led to a façade – palimpsest in which all historical interventions remain visible.
site Halmaalweg 3800 Sint-Truiden
client Gemeenschapsonderwijs Brussel
structural & technical eng BSTK Ingenieur-bureau bvba
photography VBMarchitecten and Bavo Swijgers
surface 848 m²
budget 844 983 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2003 | realisation 2005-2006
status built
tags built, education, public
code V0312BSB
The project is based on an efficient long term master plan that combines a maximum of green space with a logical sequence of existing and new school buildings. In this way the complex can easily be phased and extended throughout the years whilst maintaining the essential qualities of the initial scheme.
In a first phase a volume of 8 classrooms was built. This division of the school takes care of mentally handicapped and autistic children and, as these children are over-sensitive towards repetitive patterns, the position of the windows in the facade had to be randomized.
site Zonnedauwstraat 6 3110 Rotselaar
client Dhr. & Mevr. Bergé-Danckaerts
structural eng Util cvba
photography Toon Grobet
surface 295 m²
budget 216 616 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2003 | realisation 2007
status built
tags built, housing, private
code V0303BER
BEFORE: a banal introverted house with a problematic lay-out, not relating at all to its context and almost disfunctional beyond hope.
AFTER: a spacious villa for a large family, combining privacy and cosy living with lots of daylight and an intense contact with the surrounding forest.
TOTAL MAKEOVER: upstairs and downstairs are switched - a bridge connects to the entrance hall, the day-area and the master bedroom are on the first floor, four children-bedrooms are located on the ground floor; a new and well insulated wooden facade wraps a warm ecological coat around this new home.
site Waversesteenweg 36 2820 Bonheiden
client City of Bonheiden
structural & technical eng Stabo cvba
photography Toon Grobet
surface 3 008 m²
budget 3 333 679 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2001 | realisation 2004-2005
status built
tags built, offices, public, sustainable
code V0118BON
This ecological town hall expresses open management, low threshold and high accessibility with a communicative attitude towards the citizens. Outside and inside rules a well controlled transparency, not only between the visitors and the 'political powers' but also amongst the personnel itself. Moreover, without any muscular boasting, the building adds social control and a homely feeling of safety to its surroundings.
site Lange Sint Annastraat 7 2000 Antwerp
client Universiteit Antwerpen and Ministerie van de Vlaamse Overheid Afdeling Gebouwen
structural & technical eng Stabo cvba
heritage consultant Robin Engels
photography Toon Grobet
art integration Guy Van Bossche
surface 6 989 m²
budget 5 253 351 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2001 | realisation 2005-2007
status built
tags built, culture, education, heritage, offices, public
code V0112GRA
A neo-gothic monastery in the historic fabric of Antwerp was to be transformed into a multi-purpose building for University office headquarters. The answer was 'multiple choice' – the maximization of simultaneous events that could take place in the building. The introverted character of the monastery is kept, but the austere atmosphere inside is transformed into a richer and interactive one.
site A. Dansaertstraat 70 and Moutstraat 15 1000 Brussels
client Erasmushogeschool Brussels
structural & technical eng Stabo cvba
photography memymom, BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS
surface 6 322 m²
budget 3 500 000 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2001 | realisation 2005-2009
status built
tags built, education, offices, public
code V0108RTS
links www.rits.be and www.ritscafe.be
This project has two aims: to make the creative activities of the school more visible and to generate a readable circulation pattern. One single entrance opens towards all the departments; in its prolongation there is a connector (basement and ground floor) that links the various buildings. Adding offices, daylight and views on the gardens was a way to upgrade the derelict basement and turn it into valuable new functional space.
site Naamsestraat 22 3000 Leuven
client K.U.Leuven Technische Diensten, Heverlee
structural eng Hans De Petter
technical eng BSTK bvba
photography Toon Grobet, Marin Kasimir
surface 850 m²
budget 2 192 664 € ex. vat and fee
timing design 2000-2004 | realisation 2006-2007
status built
tags built, education, heritage
code V0006HAL
awards ARCHITECTURAL AWARD OF THE CITY OF LEUVEN 2008
In this extension, the façades of the historical Cloth Hall and of the other neighbouring buildings become inner walls. The edges between inside and outside are blurred, as you look from the inside of the old buildings through the old façacades to a new inside space – a transparency implied by the simultaneous perception of different spatial locations.
Instead of hiding the required vertical and horizontal circulation, we have designed it as a ‘promenade architecturale’ along the former historical facades, a space which fluctuates in a continuous activity and culminates in a panoramic view of the city.
site Pärnu, Estonia
client City of Pärnu
timing design 2003 | realisation 2005
surface 21 ha
status masterplan and detailed plans approved by the town authorities
tags public, studies, sustainable, urban
team Oana Bogdan, Raquel Colacios, Ivan Llach, Kelly Shannon, Laura Vescina
SECOND NATURE is an urban and architectural strategy which spatially and culturally creates a new seaside landscape for Pärnu’s eastern extension. The development embraces the larger urban scale of Pärnu, simultaneously terminating the city-scale rhythm of recreational, leisure and health related facilities and spatially announcing the beginning of the preserved area of natural flora and tidal wetlands.
info consulting engineers sustainability, based in Antwerp
e-mail info@beco.be
website www.beco.be/energie
BECO Group is an international consulting engineering office pursuing sustainability as a source of ecological AND economical benefit. Eco-efficiency, low energy consumption in the industrial sector, sustainable product and building innovation are the main tools used to create synergy between human being, nature and profit. BECO engineers is working as ecological consultant for our projects.
collaboration
v319CWK-Supervising engineers sustainability for Centrale Werkplaatsen Leuven.
info designer Bram Boo is Bram Van Den Boogaart,
born 1971 in Brussels, lives and works in Sint-Truiden
e-mail bramboo@skynet.be
website www.bramboo.be
We have been working with Bram Boo since the creation of our office in Brussels. While waiting for the office furniture that we had ordered, our office became a showroom for Bram Boo prototypes; during a few months we used them as regular desks and office equipment. The designs were instigators for creativity and that in a non-museum office context. As we were very happy of both the aesthetic and functional value, we started to collaborate with Bram Boo for competitions.
collaboration
0001BVB-Use of Bram Boo design prototypes in BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS office, 2008.
0011BKS-Competition design Bronks Youth Theatre Brussels, 2008.
info energy management company, based in Heverlee
e-mail info@cee-engineering.com
website www.cee-engineering.com
CEE is an energy management company. They design and implement creative, tangible solutions for their clients realizing energy savings with feasible payback periods. CEE's mission is to realize measurable energy savings four their clients without impacting their required product and comfort quality levels.
collaboration
several recent competitions
info artist born 1976 in Winterthur,
lives and works in Amsterdam and Tschlin
e-mail curdintones@planet.nl
website www.curdintones.com
An art intervention is often only an addition to a finished building. The analytical and sharp approach in the work of Curdin Tones was an incentive for us to experiment with the use and importance of art interventions preceding the building phase and to look into how this could influence the design process from the very beginning.
collaboration
0003KAN- “Private Space Public View Public Space Private View” photo collage 210 x 110m with project site Kanaalhuizen as project instigator, 2008.
info professional photographer based in, the Netherlands
email info@fotografieraaymakers.nl
website www.fotografieraaymakers.nl
Hennie Raaymakers is een vakfotograaf die beschikt over een gedurfde creatieve geest. Niets wordt aan het toeval overgelaten, zodanig dat het eindresultaat de verwachtingen van een opdrachtgever regelmatig overtreft. Daarvoor maakt hij gebruik van hoogwaardige, geavanceerde apparatuur en een eigen studio waar ruimte is voor het fotograferen van een kievitsei tot landrover.
collaboration
v421KHL-Photography for KHLim Media & Design Academie Genk, 2010.
info association for Agroforestry, based in Kinshasa
e-mail ibi@ibi-village.cd
website www.ibi-village.cd
Intrigued by the ecological concept of agriculture and forestry combined with long time storage of carbon-dioxide in plantations on the high plains of the Bateke plateau in the west of Congo, we are starting up a collaboration with Ibi Village. Our task comprises advice on urban design, sustainable building, waste-water management, the use of local building techniques and the implementation of renewable energy sources based on solar energy.
info graphic design studio Indianen is Wout Bosschaert, Steven Holsbeeks and Tim Knapen, born 1980 in Antwerp, 1985 in Antwerp and 1982 in Leuven, live and work in Antwerp
e-mail info@wereldderindianen.be
website www.wereldderindianen.be
The creative web-design office Indianen was asked to design and develop our website. They started from our basic ideas and requirements, respected them but also brought them to a higher standard of graphical design and communication. Afterwards they took care of the graphical corporate identity of our office.
collaboration BOGDAN & VAN BROECK website design.
info designer born 1980 in France,
lives and works in Brussels
e-mail liseelsayed@yahoo.fr
website www.liseelsayed.com
The artist Lise El Sayed designed 20 tapis-chaises for our meeting table; the art-project consists of recycled wooden chairs with seats covered with cut-outs from a vintage oriental carpet. In her work she integrates interior design elements with artistic and philosophical links to travel, tissue, positive-negative cut-outs, reproduction and recycling.
collaboration
0001BVB-Tapis Chaises installation in BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS office, 2009.
info artist born 1957 in München,
lives and works in Brussels
e-mail marinkasimir@skynet.be
website www.de-expeditie.com
We have invited the artist and photographer Marin Kasimir to capture the essence of our intervention in K.U.Leuven University Hall. He works with panoramic pictures that cover 360° or more using a rotating digital camera and digital post processing. The way Marin Kasimir has chosen to represent our project shows that - in order to reveal complex spatial qualities - one sometimes draws more informations from a deformed representation of architecture than from a realistic one. This first test became the start of a long term collaboration.
collaboration
v006HAL-Photography realisation K.U.Leuven University Hall, 2008.
info memymom = me (Lisa) my mom (Marilène), live and work in Brussels
e-mail info@memymom.com
website www.memymom.com
Memymom represents our project RITS Film & Theater School Brussels via photo montages referring to Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rear Window": photographer L.B. Jeffries is confined to his small apartment with a broken leg and spends his time looking out of the rear window observing his neighbors. As he begins to suspect one of his neighbors across the courtyard to have murdered his wife, he enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
The story of Rear Window (1954) is dealing with voyeurism in a building complex that is in a way similar to RITS, as one of the main architectural concerns for this project was to see and to be seen. On the one hand there is the privacy of the neighbors of RITS confronted with the very dense cluster of school buildings and inner courtyards. On the other hand there are the visibility of the creative production and the participation of this art school in Dansaertstraat, a trendy and busy street of the European capital.
As it is also true for our collaboration with Marin Kasimir, the way Memymom has represented our project shows that - in order to reveal complex spatial qualities - one sometimes draws more information from an altered representation of architecture than from a realistic one.
collaboration
v108RTS-Photography and montage RITS Film & Theater School Brussels, 2009.
info photographer born 1978 in Brussels,
lives and works in Brussels
e-mail info@mikaelfalke.com
website www.mikaelfalke.com
The pictures of Mikael Falke are combining artistic and architectural values. The goal of the collaboration is a collection of images suitable for both architectural reviews and artistic expositions.
collaboration
v421KHL-Photography construction phase KHLim Media & Design Academy, Genk, 2008-2009.
more photos here
info structural engineering company, based in Brussels
e-mail ney@ney.be
website www.ney.be
Ney and Partners is a structural engineering office established in Brussels. They work with an integrated view on engineering that is activated as early as possible in the design process. Our collaboration aims at a full integration of architecture, structure and context.
collaboration
0017TES-Structural engineering for Tall Emblem Structure for Dubai.
0002VUB-Structural engineering for University sports hotel VUB Brussels.
info photographer and architect born 1986 in Leuven,
lives and works in Brussels
e-mail olmo.peeters@gmail.com
website http://olmopeeters.be
Olmo Peeters is qualified both as architect and photographer. His photographic view on projects works as a sharp report of the building process and the resulting architecture.
collaboration
v319CWK-Photography construction phase Centrale Werkplaatsen Leuven, 2008-2009.
info historian and engineer, based in Brussels
e-mail robin.engels@origin.eu
Historian and engineer-architect Robin Engels works as a consultant in our heritage-related projects. His approach helps us to tune contemporary architectural interventions in a fragile historical context.
collaboration
0010IFF-Consulting historian and engineer for In Flanders Field Museum.
v112GRA-Consulting historian and engineer for Rectorate University Antwerp.
info technical engineering company, based in Riemst
e-mail sb.heedfeld@pandora.be
SB Heedfeld is a no-nonsense technical engineering office that offers a wide range of services of outstanding quality. Our common integrated project approach assures that the collaboration starts at the beginning of a project and aims for a perfect synergy between architecture, ecology and low energy consumption.
collaboration
0002VUB-Structural engineering for University sports hotel VUB Brussels.
info artist/architect duo Speedism is Julian Friedauer and Pieterjan Ginckels,
born 1980 in Friedrichshall DE and born 1982 in Tienen,
live and work in Stuttgart and Brussels
e-mail bonjour@speedism.net
website www.speedism.net
Speedism works at the borders of fields as architecture, architectural theory, visual arts, visual theory, urban tactics, imagineering and scriptwriting. As visual artists and architects, and starting from these backgrounds, Speedism develops visual universes, theoretical landscapes, denkräume, narratives and scenarios. Speedism uses different forms of input, ranging from Wikipedia, mythology, urban theory, geopolitical analysis, technical restrictions, music, and so on, in a random and non-hierarchical order.
collaboration
0016DOK-Idea competition design Concrete factory Oude dokken Gent
info professional photographer, based in Neuss , Germany.
email info@thomas-mayer-photo.de
website www.thomas-mayer-photo.de
archive http://thomasmayerarchive.de
Freelance in Germany since 1969, photographer for documentary on location in editorial and corporate work, architecture, landscape, people, industrial.
Worked for major magazines like GEO, stern, Spiegel, merian, ZEIT-Magazin, Lufthansa Bordbuch.
Corporate work for advertising agencies and companies like ERCO- lighting, Volkswagen, BMW, Duales System Deutschalnd, planmoebel, Werhahn.
Established 1986 together with Henning Christoph the stock-agency 'Das Fotoarchiv' in Essen.
collaboration
v421KHL-Photography for KHLim Media & Design Academy, Genk, 2010.
info fashion designer duo Ti+Hann is Ticuta Racovita and Hanne De Wyngaert, born 1982 in Tecuci and 1983 in Hasselt, live and work in Antwerp
e-mail hello@tiplushann.com
website www.tiplushann.com
photography Olmo Peeters en Vincent Tillieux
24th of September 2008 we hosted Ti+Hann spring summer fashion collection 2009. This collection “Nice to meet you too” was presented by 12 models walking up and down the office tables of our office. The event was the result of a spontaneous last-minute collaboration between Ti+Hann, FLAG Models, Nononoise live (music), Juliette et ses baguettes (music), Lene Leroy (make up), JuJu (hair artist), Vidisquare (AV solutions and video rental), Sellino's (catering) and many more. It was an evening with fashion, video, nice food and wine, music, dance and a very varied audience.
collaboration
0001BVB-“Nice to meet you too” presentation spring/summer 2009 collection in BOGDAN & VAN BROECK ARCHITECTS office, 2008.
info photographer, lives and works in Antwerp
e-mail info@toongrobet.be
website www.toongrobet.be
Photographer Toon Grobet offers a wide range of services of outstanding technical quality; his work focuses mainly on photographic imaging related to architecture and design. In his pictures he does not only make a concise documentary report of a project but also reveals specific spatial qualities and light conditions.
collaboration
v303BER-Photography realisation Total Make Over House B, 2009.
v006HAL-Photography realisation K.U.Leuven Rectorate, 2008.
v112GRA-Photography realisation Rectorate University Antwerp, 2007.